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President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, host a Veterans Day breakfast in the East Room before traveling to Arlington National Cemetery.

I might as well have been watching "Howdy Doody" I got up last Sunday morning and watched one of those television news programs like "Meet the Press." Or maybe it was C-Span's coverage of a Democratic gathering to applaud committee passage of their 1,990-page health reform package.

We've got two interesting stories this morning for the readers of Northwest Headlines.

NPR is wringing its hands . . . with good reason. Let's look at their list of Senate races and see how much good news is there for the Dems.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and other senior U.S. government officials hailed yesterdaya s Iraqi-parliament passage of a new election law that governs that countrya s voting processes.

U.S. Representative John Conyers, D-Detroit. Veteran U.S. Rep. John Conyers is urging President Barack Obama to get tough with those senators he says are standing in the way of passing legislation designed to overhaul the nation's health care system.

Vice President Joe Biden is making a trip to Detroit to raise money for two Democratic congressmen.

WASHINGTON --In his first year a chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Kerry is emerging out of his diminished shadow as a defeated 2004 presidential nominee into a voice of reason as well as a man of action.

Jon Corzine is terrific with concepts and policy details, a wonk, but he is simply not a gifted politician.

MIDDLE WAY: Advisers to the US president said that extreme options of no additional troops or General McChrystal s request of 80,000 troops were not being considered AP AND NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, LONDON AND WASHINGTON Monday, Nov 09, 2009, Page 5 Advisers to US President Barack Obama are preparing three options for escalating the war effort in ...

Democrats are struggling to corral the votes they need for Obamacare in the House: Democratic leaders trying to preserve a high-stakes Saturday vote on a House health reform bill battled a swift current of rank-and-file defections Friday as the White House swung into action to help corral the final votes.

Jury selection begins today in the first-degree murder trial of Gary Lamont Hayes, 25, of Havelock.

It's finally Tuesday and voter will go to the polls in New York to determine who will be the new US Rep from the 23rd Congressional District.

House Democrats put the finishing touches on their health care legislation Friday, and cleared an abortion-related impasse over compromise language on the politically treacherous issue of insurance coverage for abortions, as party leaders and the White House pushed to lock in votes on the eve of a historic floor debate.

Iraqi lawmakers blew another deadline Thursday as they continued haggling over an election law that's crucial to the country's political stability and to the Obama administration's plans for a speedy withdrawal of U.S. troops.

Blanchard's Wise Predictions As expected, yours truly correctly predicted the outcome of tonight's gubernatorial elections.

Faced with the choice of running as an unapologetic Democrat in a state trending toward his party or keeping his distance from Washington in the fashion of a generation of Southern Democrats, Creigh Deeds tried to do both.

In the end, all the stumping in the world from the President of the United StatesA wasn't going toA stop regime change in New Jersey's highest office.

A Kurdish member of Iraq's parliament said Monday that the United States is pressuring the "highest levels of the Kurdish leadership" to accept a compromise that would dictate how national elections would be held in January.

On November 5, EPI co-hosted Vice President Joe Biden and a panel of economic experts to discuss the challenges of the middle class.